ESPAÑOL. CULTURAL AGENDA EMBASSY OF SPAIN IN THE HAGUE april / may / june 2019

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1 ESPAÑOL CULTURAL AGENDA EMBASSY OF SPAIN IN THE HAGUE april / may / june 2019

2 CULTURAL DEPARTMENT If you would like to subscribe to our e-newsletter please contact: Index Spanish participation at Go Short Festival Nijmegen 3 Conference about science in Al-Andalús 4 Almudena Grandes in EUNIC European Literature Night 5 Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival 6 Jaume Plensa s exhibition in BAZ museum 7 Recommendations 8 You can also check the website of Instituto Cervantes en Utrecht.

3 Spanish participation at Go Short Festival Nijmegen April 2019, Nijmegen The eleventh edition of the Dutch festival for short films Go Short will take place in Nijmegen from 3 to 7 April. Go Short has become a reference in the international shorts festival circuit in Europe. More than 320 productions will be screened, including several Spanish (co)productions: The Golden Legend by Chema García Ibarra e Ion de Sosa, Because of Salt by Cardozo Basteiro, Mudanza Contemporánea by Teo Guillén, The Sun of Iphonema by Victor Villavicencio, Mother by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, The Hopeless by Belén Funes, Good Morning resistance by Adrian Or, These Who Desire by Elena Lopez Riera and The Christmas Gift by Bodgan Muresanu. In collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, Spanish directors Cardozo Basteiro and Migule López Beraza will be participating: the first will be present at the screening of his film Because of Salt; the second will participate in two masterclasses. More information can be found at the Website of the Go Short Festival Nijmegen. 3

4 Conference about science in Al-Andalús April 24 th 2019, Koningkerk Church, Voorburg The Embassy of Spain, in collaboration with the Hispanic Association of The Hague (ASOHA) will organize a conference about science in Al-Andalús on April 24th The conference will be given by Mariano Gómez Aranda, research scientist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Mariano Gómez Aranda has participated in eight research projects since 1989 which were funded by the Ministry of Education and Science and he has directed five of them, the last one being called Patrimonio cultural escrito de los judíos en la Península Ibérica. Currently, he is the President of the Spanish Association of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (AEEHJ). The lecture, which will be held in Spanish, will take place on Wednesday 24th April 2019 at 19:30 hrs in the Koningkerk church (Voorburg, The Hague). Registration by required before April 22nd (secretaria@asoha.nl); entrance fee of 5 euros for non-members of ASOHA. 4

5 Spanish writer Almudena Grandes attending 2019 EUNIC European Literature Night 16 to 17 May 2019, Amsterdam On the 16th and 17th of May the 2019 European Literature Night will be held in Amsterdam, organized by the European Union of National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC) in collaboration with the European Commission. Several European writers and poets will meet to discuss the central theme: Libraries (Back to Alexandria). They will talk about their own library, the first library they ever visited, the thrill of digital texts available world-wide or nostalgia for paper: an evening of stories and poetry, moderated by Suze van der Poll, Eric Metz and Guido Snel, lecturers at the University of Amsterdam. In collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, the Spanish writer Almudena Grandes (Madrid, 1960) will participate. She has become one of the most consolidated and internationally renowned names in contemporary Spanish literature. Several of her books have been adapted for the screen and have been awarded with prizes by, for example, the Lara Foundation, the Booksellers Prize of Madrid or, in 2018, the National Literature Prize for Narrative by Spain s Ministry of Culture. The 2019 European Literature Night will be held at Flemish Arts Centre De Brakke Grond and the OBA, Amsterdam s Public Library, which this year celebrates its 100th anniversary. More information can be found at the website of De Brakke Grond, the OBA and the artist herself. 5

6 Fifth edition of Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival 28 May 02 June 2019 The fifth edition of Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival (ASFF), organized by audio visual platform Sin Fin Cinema, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in The Hague and other Spanish institutions and companies, will take place from 28 May to 02 June. This year the ASFF will be held in cinemas Pathé Tuschinski, Eye, Pathé de Munt, Het Ketelhuis and Cinecenter. Part of the programme will be shown in Rotterdam on 04th- 09th June The festival aims to connect Dutch audiences to Spanish cinema, showing a great selection of recently released films from different genres: thrillers, comedies, dramas, shorts, documentaries and animation movies. These films will be divided in different sections like Core Programme, Spanish Cinema without Fear, Music documentary, Vermouth time and an Educational Programme where school students can enjoy the Spanish documentary film. ASFF s complete programme will be announced a month before the festival in its renowned Launch Event (April 30th). More information about the festival can be found at the website of ASFF. 6

7 Jaume Plensa s exhibition in museum Beelden aan Zee 22 June -22 September 2019 The museum Beelden aan Zee (BAZ) celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with three special exhibitions. The summer exhibition, which will take place from June 22 to September 22, will be dedicated to Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, a versatile artist known for his large sculptures that are exhibited mainly in public spaces. He has completed over thirty large projects in cities such as Chicago, Dubai, London, Liverpool, Nice, Tokyo, Toronto and Vancouver, and he has received many awards, including the Medal de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres and the Velázquez Prize for the Arts in The relationship between Jaume Plensa and the museum Beelden aan Zee started a long time ago. In 1985, Theo and Lida Scholten, founders of Beelden aan Zee, bought one of his first works, titled Home. Last year, Jaume Plensa created the fountain titled Love, one of the eleven fountains made for Leeuwarden-Frylân European Capital of Culture More information about the exhibition can be found at the website of museum BAZ. 7

8 RECOMMENDATIONS Spanish director Salvador Simó presents his film Buñuel in the labyrinth of the turtles 2 nd April 2019, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam On April 2nd Spanish director Salvador Simó will present his film Buñuel in the labyrinth of the turtles in EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam, followed by a Q&A. This animation film, inspired by the graphic novel by Fermin Salís tells the incredible but fact-based history of how Luis Buñuel made his second film Las Hurdes, tierra sin pan in It is a fantastic narration by one of the masters of surrealism. The film will be screened in Dutch cinemas starting on April 18th. For more information you can visit the website of the EYE Filmmuseum. 8

9 Spanish photographer Ángel Fitor, nominated at World Press Photo april - 07 july 2019, Amsterdam World Press Photo 2019 has nominated Spanish photographer Ángel Fitor for the category of Nature with a photo of a winged comb jelly through waters off Alicante (Spain). The winners of the contest will be announced at the Award Ceremony that will take place on April 11, 2019 in Amsterdam. From April 13th to July 7th 2019 World Press Photo will exhibit the prize-winning photos in De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam. Afterwards, the exhibition will tour the world including cities such as Hamburg, Mexico or Vienna. More information can be found at the website of the World Press Photo foundation. Nature - Nominee, Singles Ángel Fitor. Title: Glass Butterfly 9

10 Book presentation: Los hombrecitos Hasselblad by Gerard Fieret 25 April 2019, 7 pm, bookstore Van Stockum, The Hague On April 25th bookstore Van Stockum in The Hague will present the bilingual poetic anthology Los hombrecitos Hasselblad by Dutch artist, photographer and poet Gerard Fieret ( ) edited by Nanne Timmer. This bilingual poetic anthology brings together, for the first time in Spanish, the poems, autobiographical texts and photographs of the Dutch artist. More information can be found at the website of bookstore Van Stockum. 9

11 Angélica Lidell will perform at the Holland Festival 29 May to 23 June 2019, Amsterdam From May 29 until June 23 will take place the 72nd edition of Holland Festival, one of the most important performing arts festivals in the Netherlands. Founded in 1947, this festival annually presents exceptional works combining big names and daring experiments. Music, theatre, dance and opera, among others, are the heart of a program C that also includes visual arts, literature and architecture. Lidell s performance, a free adaptation of the American novel The Scarlet Letter denouncing the return of puritanism, will take place on June 8 and 9 at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. More information can be found at the website of Holland Festival. 10